Fyodor Bruni

Fyodor (Fidelio) Antonovich Bruni (Russian: Федор (Фиделио) Антонович Бруни) (June 10, 1799, Milan - August 30 (N.S. September 11), 1875, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter of Italian descent.

Fyodor Bruni studied in Rome, but returned to Saint Petersburg, where he eventually became director of the Academy of Fine Arts. His principal works are The Death of Camilla , Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, The Brazen Serpent, and various figures in the Cathedral of St. Isaac. From 1866 till his death, he superintended the School of Mosaics at Saint Petersburg.

References

Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 191. http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1.

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